The Incredible Rags to Riches Story of Eight Year Old Sunny Pawar.- Suhel Johar


 
Priyanka Chopra may have had heads turning in her glittering gold outfit for the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards this year. But it was another Indian Sunny Pawar who shone the brightest after charming Hollywood with his praise worthy performance in Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel starrer blockbuster film Lion.

Lion tells story of a poor Indian boy who got lost after falling asleep on a train and ended up in an orphanage. Adopted by an Australian couple, Saroo flew 6,000 miles to Tasmania and found birth mother 25 years later. Sunny plays the young Saroo while the adult version is played by Dev Patel. The film has not just proved to be a big commercial hit but has won six Oscar nominations, including Best Film, Best Supporting Actor for Patel and Best Supporting Actress for Kidman.

Coming back to Sunny, who lives in a slum near Kalina, a Mumbai suburb, was attending the government Air India Modern School, was chosen to play the young Saroo Brierley, after an audition that comprised of over 2,000 boys across Mumbai, Pune and Delhi. Sunny stood out from the pack even though he didn't have prior acting experience.

Although he and his family live, eat and sleep in a cramped single room and share a communal bathroom with scores of others. Lion has seen him thrust into a life of international travel. He and his father Dilip have now flown around the world for film shoots, premiers and award ceremonies. Seen as one of those Disney characters whose innocence just holds Sunny has been making quite an impression with the press despite his limited English language skills.

Incidentally, Sunny has already completed another international project Love Sonia, which also stars Rajkummar Rao, Richa Chadha, Demi Moore among others.

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